
| Product | Business use | Processor (Max) | Memory (Min/Max) | Internal storage (Max) |
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IBM BladeCenter HS12 Express
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Ideal applications include: Applications customers currently run on uniprocessor systems, general business applications including file and print, collaboration and Web serving. | Single- or Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® up to 3.0 GHz or Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® up to 2.83 GHz and up to 1333 MHz front-side bus | Up to 1 GB standard memory/24 GB with VLP ECC DDR II 667 MHz | Up to two internal hot-swap or non-hot-swap solid state, hot- swap SAS or non-hot-swap SATA drives |
IBM BladeCenter HS22 Express
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Ideal Applications Include: Virtualisation, hosted client, general business and enterprise applications. | Choice of two Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors, up to 3.06 GHz | Up to 96 GB of VLP DDR-3 memory. | Up to 1.0 TB total internal storage |
IBM BladeCenter HS22V Express
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Ideal applications include virtualisation and memory-intensive applications. | Choice of two Intel® Xeon® 5500 or 5600 series processors; supports advanced, standard, basic and low voltage. | Up to 144 GB of VLP DDR-3 memory. | Up to 100 GB total internal storage. |
IBM BladeCenter HX5 Express
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Ideal applications include database, virtualisation, business intelligence, modeling and simulation and other enterprise applications. | 8-core Intel® Xeon® 7500 and 6500 series (up to 2.26 GHz), 6-core Intel® Xeon® 7500 and 6500 series (up to 2.66 GHz), 4-core Intel® Xeon® 7500 and 6500 series (up to 1.86 GHz) Up to 2 processors per singlewide HX5; scalable to 4 processors and beyond | 16 DDR-3 VLP DIMM slots, capacity up to 128 GB, per singlewide HX5 (scalable up to 640 GB max, at speeds up to 1067 MHz, via 80 DIMM slots, using 2 MAX5 expansion blades) | Up to two solid-state drives per singlewide HX5 |
IBM BladeCenter LS42 Express
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Ideal applications include: HPC, including modeling and simulation; database; virtualisation; business performance computing applications including SAP and business intelligence. | Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor 8347 HE and 8356 | Up to 64 GB DDR II VLP (800 MHz) | 293.6 GB internally; up to 734 GB with Storage and I/O Expansion blade installed; up to 62.8 GB using solid-state drives |
IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express
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The JS22 Express blade server is an excellent solution for infrastructure consolidation of multiple servers and workloads into a small form factor that is simple to manage. It is an excellent alternative to a traditional small form factor server, and can handle a range of commercial workloads as well as specialised workloads like high performance computing. | Four 64-bit 4.0 GHz IBM POWER6™ processor cores with AltiVec SIMD accelerator | Base Offering: 2 GB (2 x 1 GB); Express Offering: 4 GB (2 x 2 GB), up to 32 GB maximum per blade, four DIMM slots, ECC Chipkill DDR2 SDRAM running at 667 MHz (1, 2, 4 GB DIMMs) 533 MHz (8 GB DIMMs) | 146 GB |
IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701 and PS702 Express
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The BladeCenter PS700 Express blade server is an excellent alternative to a traditional entry rack or tower server, and can handle a range of commercial workloads across the broadest OS environments available. | Four 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7™ cores with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration | Base offering: 8 GB (2 x 4 GB); Express offering: 16 GB (4 x 4 GB), up to 64 GB maximum per blade, eight DIMM slots, ECC IBM Chipkill DDR3 SDRAM running at 1066 MHz (4 GB DIMMs) 800 MHz (8 GB DIMMs) | 600 GB |
| IBM BladeCenter PS703 and PS704 |
The PS703 helps deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed. When used with PowerVM™ for advanced virtualisation, the PS703 is the ideal blade server solution for driving your most demanding performance and memory-intensive workloads. | Thirty two 64-bit 2.4 GHz POWER7® cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration | PS703 16 GB/128 GB PS704 32 GB/256 GB |
PS703 0 GB/600 GB HDD or 0 GB/400GB Solid State PS704 0 GB/1.2 TB HDD or 0 GB/800GB Solid State |
IBM BladeCenter S Chassis
IBM BladeCenter S Chassis
Business use: All-in-one chassis with integrated, high-performance SAN ideal for small offices and remote branch environments.

